The single from the Los Angeles-based rock band’s self-titled debut album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 29, 1967, kicking off a three-week run at the top of the music chart.
Written by Robby Krieger with help from Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore, the original version of “Light My Fire” featured a hypnotic organ riff and lyrics about desire. While it introduced the band’s psychedelic sound, the song returned in 1968 as an acoustic cover recorded by guitar virtuoso José Feliciano, which debuted on Billboard on July 27, 1968, and reached No. 3 on August 31 of that year.
“It's really a great feeling to have written a classic,” he said in an interview with Classic Bands. “I think I owe a big debt to José Feliciano because he is actually the one, when he did it, everybody started doing it. He did a whole different arrangement on it. It was a much more accessible arrangement as far as different types of musicians doing it. …The very fact that that song was the key element in the career of both The Doors and José Feliciano, in two total different arrangements of the song, shows how strong that song is.”
"I didn't agree, but it was one of the times I was wrong,” he admitted in an interview published by Elsewhere. “When my career took off, it surprised me. I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared."
“I think ‘Light My Fire’ was a unique-sounding record in the sense that it didn't employ any drums, like your rock 'n' roll records of that time period,” he told Classic Bands. "I think that's why I made it. It was guitar, conga drum, and Ray Brown on bass. It was just the right elements at the right time.”
The Doors guitarist once said he always considered “Light My Fire” to be one of the best songs that he ever wrote.
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